Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.